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6 Best WordPress Plugins For Ecommerce

WordPress is an extremely flexible content management system that enables you to create a variety of different websites. WordPress began as a simple blogging platform, but now it’s grown into a full-fledged website building machine. Sometimes you just want to sell a few products on your WordPress site, while other times you’ll want to build a full-fledged eCommerce store.

Lucky for you, this process can be very simple with the addition of certain WordPress plugins. Below we highlight six of the best WordPress eCommerce plugins, and how they can be used to enhance your website.

1. WooCommerce

WooCommerce is probably one of the most commonly used eCommerce plugins. This powerful plugin is suited for sites of any size, and can easily grow with you as your website and product line expands.

They also offer a ton of paid and free themes and extensions, which integrate beautifully with the plugin.

Some of the most commonly used features include:

PayPal integration

Sales reports

Different shipping options

Inventory management

Coupon implementation

2. WP eCommerce

WP eCommerce gives you complete control over the look and feel of your store. This plugin can be used for a variety of product types: digital products, physical products, recurring memberships and subscriptions, and more. There are also a variety of plugins and themes available which will further extend the functionality of the plugin.

Common features of this plugin include:

A streamlined checkout process

Multiple payment option support

Completely customizable layout

Multiple shipping option support

3. Jigoshop

Jigoshop allows you to set up your online store in a matter of minutes. Their interface is very user-friendly, which enables you to easily manage your store’s inventory. This plugin also offers a variety of reporting features, which includes sales and stock data, so you can get a real-time estimate on how your store is performing.

There are also a variety of extensions and themes, to help you further customize your store and add additional functionality.

4. Easy Digital Downloads

If you’re just looking to sell digital products, then you’ll want to check out Easy Digital Downloads. This simple plugin has an array of features, including:

Multiple payment methods accepted

The ability to run sales

A cart system for multi-item purchases

Complete payment history

A lot of eCommerce apps are very heavy and bulky. However, this apps stands out with its clean and minimal codebase.

5. MarketPress

MarketPress seeks to be a full-featured eCommerce suite for WordPress. It’s developed by the WPMU DEV team, so you know it’s going to be very high quality. Instead of having to download a bunch of plugins from a variety of sources, this plugin can theoretically handle all of your needs.

This plugin delivers a seamless shopping cart experience. It supports most payment gateways, and lets you manage the distribution and shopping costs for custom orders.

There’s also a premium version of this plugin available, which offers the entire gamut of payment options, creating additional store models, analytics tracking, and more.

6. Cart66

Cart66 helps to make your site PCI compliant. Which means it’s secure enough to collect and transmit credit card data. This is a must have for eCommerce websites that need the ability for their users to pay via credit card.

This app also integrates with Amazon S3, so you can easily sell digital products as well. This is a great lightweight app to have in your arsenal.

There’s a free trial version of this app, which gives you enough time to test drive it before you make a decision. This app gives you everything you need to:

Sell physical and digital products

Sell memberships and subscriptions

Accept donations and various payments

WordPress is a great choice for your eCommerce store. Any of the plugins we highlighted above will be great choices to get your storefront up and running. To get started building your WordPress site today, click here.

What are your favorite WordPress eCommerce plugins? Share in the comments below.

Hostgator i am happy two out of the 6 plugins i have tested and i will just continue with them.

Oyekan

oyekan oyedeji

3 June 2016 at
6:27 am

and the two are ‘Woo commerce’ and ‘Easy downloads’

Amelia Willson

3 June 2016 at
8:55 am

Awesome! Glad to hear they are working out.

Pravin Gupta

23 July 2016 at
1:09 pm

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Uthayakumar Natarajan

1 November 2016 at
9:40 pm

Always WooCommerce is the first and best plugin in my opinion…Nice post. Thanks!

De McClung

1 November 2016 at
11:11 pm

Are these plug-ins free to use and embed on my website? Or do I need to buy an e-commerce feature?

Amelia Willson

2 November 2016 at
10:08 am

Hi De,

Thanks for the question!

All of these plugins offer a free version except for Cart66 which only offers a free trial. The rest of the plugins may have additional features that can be purchased for a price, but these additional features are not necessarily required depending on what you’re hoping to accomplish with your store.

We sell B2B and do not publish our pricing on the Internet. Is there a product that allows our customers to select products and have a “quotation” request to be sent to us for pricing? (Or “approval” to release the “quotation” to our potential customer..) This will stop unauthorised access to our pricing….
Also a “Rep” log in with pricing shown would be nice also…